Black to move
Check, mate and game endings
What it’s about
- In check, save the king by moving it, capturing the attacker or blocking the attack. Kings are never captured. With no legal answer it is mate; without check and without a legal move it is stalemate.
- Resignation ends the game. Players can agree a draw. On time expiry a player loses only if the opponent could still mate through some legal sequence; otherwise it is a draw. Material points alone do not decide this.